Faith

A Fixed Point in Jesus

When a farmer plows a field, it is easy to skew the plow sideways, getting the rows out of alignment. This wastes valuable crop land, creating pockets of unusable soil that will not be prepared to ...

What We Cannot Keep

Life is a series of evolving moments, none of which can ever be recaptured or relived. Once we live through a day, we become different people, affected by our experiences. We are changed in minute ...

Childlike Faith

Small children know the secret of trust. They may not know what trust is, but they practice it, ...

When God Says Jump

Some things just make sense in a certain order. Babies crawl, and then they stand and walk. We break a colt, and then we can ride it as an adult horse. We study our course material, and then we ace ...

Our BRISK God

During the waning days of fall, it is easy to find ourselves languid and purposeless. The pleasures of summer are long gone, and winter will soon blanket the land. However, God wishes us to be on the ...

Choosing the Window Seat

Flying on an airplane is a claustrophobic affair. The best seats are close and confining. The affordable ones are little better than being sardines in a can. For those who fly frequently, the choice ...

Split Eight Ways to Nothing

Life keeps us busy. Bobby is at softball practice, Mary has cheerleading, and Dad? Well, Dad’s boss always has extra projects that require him to put in overtime once again. Mom prepares dinner, ...

Old Soldiers Never Die

Visit Arlington National Cemetery, and prepare to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of white crosses that cover the hills. They represent the final resting places of nearly a third of a million ...

Our CRISP God

When the north wind shifts the day from steamy to CRISP, we relish the change in the air. We draw in a breath, and the world feels fresh and new. God is just like that. When our days begin to ...

Exotic Destination Desired

Imagine driving the highest navigable road in Colorado at over 14,000 feet, or surfing a black sand beach in Hawaii, or even cruising coastal Alaska in a private luxury suite. What do all these have ...

The Headwaters of God

The Amazon is the mightiest river in the world. It has over 1,100 tributaries feeding twenty percent of the world’s fresh water into its depths. Yet, the Amazon is only one small finger on God’s ...

The Woman Who Did a Man’s Job

How many women have watched a man stumble along, clumsy as an ox, when she could tell him how the job is done in the snap of a finger? It seems like a man never listens, not to the smarter sex, ...

Uncaged

We’ve seen the cartoon with the bird in the cage, the door open, and the tabby peering inside, just hoping for a meal. The bird quakes in fear, trapped by its precarious predicament. What has the ...